Checks and Balances
May. 10th, 2023 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingLet's talk about writers and AI, including the studios' response to our proposal.
https://twitter.com/LisaCullen/status/1653430642183659521
Writers are well aware AI will play a role in filmmaking. We're hearing that producers are already asking writers to rewrite AI-sourced scripts and using AI to read scripts and generate notes (!).
On one hand, everything about this is stupid and I hate it. Hooray for unions and creative professionals organizing to make clear and reasonable demands.
On the other hand, I could not give less of a shit about what goes on in Hollywood. I honestly can't remember the last time I watched a show that didn't feel like it was written by AI. The early seasons of Breaking Bad, maybe? I've enjoyed shows I've watched since then, but I didn't feel moved or inspired by them. And don't get me started about Hollywood movies. You know what they say about capitalism: overproduction leads to waste, and this is killing big-budget media ecosystems.
The same goes for YA fiction. I went into a depression spiral late last year while trying to look for comps for my Unfound Door novel project. Everything I checked out from the library was unreadable, to such an extent that it made me hate myself as well as the entire human endeavor of storytelling.
What I want to say is: (a) almost nobody makes money from writing anyway, so (b) why not just let AI write shitty mass-market media? Let the snake devour its own tail so we can be done with it already.
https://twitter.com/LisaCullen/status/1653430642183659521
Writers are well aware AI will play a role in filmmaking. We're hearing that producers are already asking writers to rewrite AI-sourced scripts and using AI to read scripts and generate notes (!).
On one hand, everything about this is stupid and I hate it. Hooray for unions and creative professionals organizing to make clear and reasonable demands.
On the other hand, I could not give less of a shit about what goes on in Hollywood. I honestly can't remember the last time I watched a show that didn't feel like it was written by AI. The early seasons of Breaking Bad, maybe? I've enjoyed shows I've watched since then, but I didn't feel moved or inspired by them. And don't get me started about Hollywood movies. You know what they say about capitalism: overproduction leads to waste, and this is killing big-budget media ecosystems.
The same goes for YA fiction. I went into a depression spiral late last year while trying to look for comps for my Unfound Door novel project. Everything I checked out from the library was unreadable, to such an extent that it made me hate myself as well as the entire human endeavor of storytelling.
What I want to say is: (a) almost nobody makes money from writing anyway, so (b) why not just let AI write shitty mass-market media? Let the snake devour its own tail so we can be done with it already.
